Category "Plastics"

Members of the Rotary Club of Windsor 1918 recycled plastic bags to make mats for the homeless.

Scientists at Berkeley Labs have developed a new strain of plastic that they say has all the vaunted properties of modern polymers — but also happens to be 100 percent recyclable.

Every day, millions of people around the world wash their skin and brush their teeth with products containing tiny pieces of plastic.

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals alarming amounts of microplastic particles in the air, even in the most remote, mountainous areas.

A French company called Carbios has announced a process it says can infinitely recycle PET plastics using enzymes, even creating clear bottles from colored, post-consumer ones.

According to European Bioplastics, a plastic material is defined as a bioplastic if it is either biobased, biodegradable, or features both properties.

Valdís Steinarsdóttir uses animal hides to create a plastic-like material which can then be used to package meat products from the same animal.

CARBIOS has announced to have successfully accomplished the production of first PET-bottles made with 100% Purified Terephthalic Acid (rPTA).

Researchers found a way to turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight PET aerogels that are suitable for various applications, including heat insulation and carbon dioxide absorption.

Scientist use fluorescent dyes to suss out the “missing” 99 percent of marine plastic waste.